Labor Activists March to Bezos’s NYC Penthouse
Labor activists marched between the Manhattan penthouses top Amazon and Starbucks executives on Monday to demand recognition of unionized workers as well as an end to anti-worker labor-busting practices at both firms. The March for Recognition organized by Amazon Labor Union (ALU), began at Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s penthouse. Protesters then marched up Fifth Avenue […]
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Arms Makers Have Embraced the Youth Market as Gun Ownership in the US Declines
Authorities in Hondo, Texas, cancelled a permit that allowed an NRA-affiliated group, to hold a fundraiser on city property, in August. The event featured a raffle for an AR-15This assault rifle was used in the massacre of 21 people in Uvalde last year. At a city council meeting, families of the victims read the names […]
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Newsom Signs Bill Creating Fast Food Council With Power to Raise Minimum Wage
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Monday’s bill which will likely lead to new standards that will improve working conditions in the fast-food industry. Newsom announced that he had signed the legislation on Labor Day. establishes a 10-member Fast Food Council. The Council can adopt standards for fast food workers including rules on wages, hours worked, […]
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The Supreme Court Isn’t Apolitical — It Was Set Up to Protect Monied Interests
Is Trump’s Supreme Court now in crisis? The evidence mounts. Certainly, its recent judicial blitzkrieg has run roughshod over a century’s worth of settled law. A woman’s right to get an abortion? Gone(at the very least, as a constitutionally protected civil rights). The 1965 Voting Right Act, which gave them life, is barely keeping their […]
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Truss declares, “As strong as the storm may be, the British people are stronger”.
As the 56th President, he was formally appointed.ThLiz Truss, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, has today laid out her plans for government at Downing Street. Truss reaffirmed her determination to deliver in her first major moment in office. Acknowledging the difficulties facing her, Truss remarked, “As strong as the storm maybe, I know […]
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America Is Falling Apart. It’s Time for Those Who Care About It to Step Up.
The rapid pace at which the U.S. is crumbling is only matched by the growing hope among those in power that everything will be sorted out if Donald Trump is removed. This, however, is wishful thinking at the highest level. More than half a decade after Trump first came down the escalator, those running nearly […]
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New UK Prime Minister Liz Truss Has Extreme Anti-Labor, Anti-Environment Record
The United Kingdom’s Conservative Party has voted for Liz Truss to become its new leader, replacing Boris Johnson and making her Britain’s next prime minister. Truss served as foreign secretary under Johnson and has a record of “extreme neoliberal policies,” says British journalist George Monbiot. These include supporting tax cuts and deregulation of the fossil […]
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Trump Insists “I’m Really Rich” as His Social Media Company Faces Financial Woes
The blank-check company that planned to merge with former President Donald Trump’s struggling Truth Social venture failed to secure enough shareholder support for a one-year extension to complete the deal, according to Reuters. Trump launched the Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns Truth Social, with plans for a $1.3 billion cash infusion from Digital […]
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Does Mexico’s Wind Industry Deliver More Dirty Profits Than Clean Energy?
Nearly all Mexican wind farms are privately owned, most often by transnational U.S. and European companies. While wind farms are touted as climate solutions, the profit-hungry companies are actually causing widespread damage to the regions they’re based in. Almost two-thirds of Mexican towns and cities are currently facing severe water shortages, and the country’s Senate […]
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Is Facebook Fueling Bolsonaro’s Coup-Mongering?
Trailing badly in the polls with the presidential election less than a month away, far-right Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro is attempting to galvanize his supporters with incendiary rhetoric and lies about the integrity of the vote — and Facebook is supplying him with a megaphone to do so. That’s according to a new report released […]
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